Information For Patients

Information For Patients

A better chiropractic lifestyle doesn’t start and end in your doctor’s office. There are helpful, healing exercises and routines you can practice at home and in between adjustments. It’s recommended that you wait until after your first adjustment for home care.

Home Rehabilitation Program Intro

The specific spinal correction offered in our clinic consists of three vital components: our spinal adjustment procedure, in-clinic rehabilitation and at-home rehabilitation exercises. In the clinic, our doctor and staff will administer your adjustment and guide you through the in-clinic rehabilitation process.

Psoas Lift

This exercise helps open and strengthen the core muscles in your hips, which helps reduce subluxations in your pelvic regions. It also helps strengthen your spine.

Upper Shoulder Weight

This video explains and demonstrates the use of the head weighting system to strengthen and stabilize your cervical spine. This exercise focuses specifically on, and addresses, the cervical subluxation patterns between the neck and mid back.

Alar Ligament Excercise

This rehab exercise works the muscles just below the base of the skull to strengthen and stabilize the uppermost vertebra in your spine. This video demonstrates the proper form to maintain throughout the exercise.

Posterior T12

This video explains and demonstrates the use of cervical rolls and pelvic support wedges to strengthen and stabilize your thoracic spine. This exercise specifically addresses the thoracic subluxation patterns between the mid and lower back.

Decreased Sacral Base Blocking

This video explains and demonstrates the use of pelvic support wedges to strengthen and stabilize your lumbar spine. This exercise specifically addresses the positioning of the sacrum.

Cervical Flexion Exercise

This home care exercise focuses on stabilizing and strengthening the vertebrae in your neck. Your neck contains each of the cervical vertebra that give it a natural curve, known as the “arc of life.” Losing the curvature in your neck can damage and deteriorate

Unpacking Your Head Weights

The head weight system helps reestablish the cervical curve in your neck, which is essential to optimizing the function of your entire nervous system. Dr. Tony Nalda explains what is included in the head weight package and how to set the system up for your specific needs.

Cervical Dorsal Exercise

This simple home care exercise is vital to stabilizing your cervical spine. It will help repair the shift and irregularities—known as subluxations—in your neck bones.

Chest Expander Exercise

The chest expander exercise is used to correct subluxations in the upper thoracic and lower cervical spine. We’ll teach you the proper form to hold for 60 seconds to successfully and safely complete this exercise.

Praying Mantis Exercise

This torso stretching exercise focuses on strengthening your thoracic spine. For maximum effect, hold this position for 60 seconds.

Traction Unit

This exercise is essential to removing abnormalities in the cervical spine as well as preventing degeneration of the vertebrae in your neck. Dr. Tony Nalda demonstrates how to safely use the cervical traction door unit.

Putting On the Head Weight

The head weight system helps reestablish the cervical curve in your neck, which is essential to optimizing the function of your entire nervous system. Dr. Tony Nalda explains how to properly fit your head weight for at home use.

Psoas Stretch

This stretch helps open and loosen your hips, which prevents subluxations in your pelvic regions. It also helps strengthen your spine.

Increased Sacral Base Blocking

This video explains and demonstrates the use of pelvic support wedges to strengthen and stabilize your lumbar spine. This exercise specifically addresses the positioning of the sacrum.

Cervical and Lumbar Rolls or Sleep Aids

This video demonstrates the proper use of your sleeping aids in the cervical and lumbar spine. This system of supports helps maintain the necessary natural curves of your spine. At night, your nervous system actually becomes more active. Use your doctor-prescribed supports and wedges to get the most out of every adjustment procedure.

Wobble Cushion – Posterior T12

This video demonstrates how to warm up your spine with a specific exercise that helps to correct the lumbar spine plane. Going through this simple range of motions effectively addresses the subluxation pattern.

Wobble Cushion – LD Focus

This video will demonstrate how to warm up your spine through a specific exercise to help correct the position of the lumbar spine plane by going through a range of motion to address the subluxation pattern that is simple and super effective.

Wobble Cushion – General

The wobble cushion is an inflatable disc that sits on a chair or table. We’ll demonstrate how to warm up your entire spine through each plane of motion using this simple, yet super effective tool.

Wobble Cushion – Anterior T12

This video demonstrates how to warm up your spine with a specific exercise that helps to correct the thoracic spine plane. Going through this simple range of motions effectively addresses the subluxation pattern.

Lumbar Extension

This exercise targets the lumbar vertebrae in your low back. Perform this exercise properly and you will accentuate the essential curve in your lower spine while stabilizing your lumbar vertebrae.

CTU Pull

This video explains and demonstrates the use of the cervical traction unit to strengthen and stabilize your cervical spine. This exercise focuses specifically on, and addresses, the cervical subluxation patterns between the neck and mid back.

L-5 Spondylo Lower Exercise

This lower back exercise targets the lowest verterbra in your spine, or the L5. This is a two-part exercise that helps stabilize the bottom portion of your spine.

Cervical Extension

This simple exercise helps increase the effectiveness of spinal adjustments targeting your pelvis.We’ll demonstrate the proper technique and form for this exercise, so you can improve the health of your spine.

Pelvic Rotation Blocking

This video explains and demonstrates the use of pelvic support wedges to strengthen and stabilize your cervical and lumbar spinal bones. This exercise is essential to maintaining the proper alignment of your spine.